From the category archives:

Environment

Steel mill emissions map for the US

December 15, 2007

There’s a very useful Google Maps mashup from MapEcos that uses emissions data from the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory (which has been gathering industrial emissions data from industrial facilities since 1988). You will be asked to enter a name and a zip code on the landing page link above. You can do so or just hit skip it […]

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Donora Death Fog, October 26th, 1948

October 26, 2007

Before we get too “hoity-toity” about the effects of Chinese industrial expansion on the Chinese and global environment, it’s worth being reminded of events in the not so distant past that affected industrial cities in the West and how we talked about them.

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